Chapter 165 – Cymbidium Resignation

Fan Xian reacted quickly enough, rushing over like a shadow, pouncing Her Highness the Eldest Princess to the ground and striking his fingers like the wind, using his true qi to forcibly seal several major meridians around her wounds in the blink of an eye. However, it is still found that …… a faint black gas has slowly enveloped her Ming Yan face.

This black dagger inserted in Li Yunrui’s abdomen had been there for a while, just by the pair of wide sleeves to hide, Fan Xian did not see, more shocking to him is that Her Highness the Princess inserted the knife into the abdomen, actually still so comfortable to talk to himself, did not show a trace of pain, successfully concealed from his eyes.

It was because of this period of time that the toxin had long since flowed throughout her body along with her blood, entering her heart and faintly surfacing her face. Even if Fei Jie appeared in Kyoto at this time, he would not be able to save her life.

Fan Xian lowered his head and looked at the dagger on her abdomen, looking at the hilt of the dagger, he couldn’t help but feel a slight chill in his heart, because it looked familiar. But at this time is not the time to care about these things, he held the eldest princess’s shoulders with one hand, one hand pressed to her soft belly above, inherited from the north qi’s heavenly one supreme heart method, just like this without stinting to pour in.

After a long time, the Eldest Princess, who had been silent and did not show half a trace of pain, finally frowned and gave him an angry look, saying, “Just want to savor the taste of pain and death, why do you bother to disturb me?”

She had been high and mighty all her life, as the young princess of the royal family, highly favored by her parents and elder brothers, who would dare to make her suffer? Especially on the flesh, besides the four slaps of the empress dowager, and the emperor’s violent anger in the night of the thunderstorm, Li Yunrui in this life, really didn’t know what it was like to have pain in her bones.

This is really a bit crazy. However, Fan Xian did not have the time to fight with her, silently inputting his true qi, forcing the toxins in her body to one place. Gradually, the light black color of Li Yunrui’s face became thicker and thicker, but then gathered in the direction of her temples, and the skin of the rest of her face returned to its usual brightness.

Fan Xian stifled a grunt, his right palm slapped on her soft belly, Li Yunrui’s vermilion lips slightly opened. Immediately afterward, his left hand probed into his bosom like lightning, taking out a pill and stuffing it into her mouth.

He was familiar with the poison on this dagger as it was originally dispensed by himself, so the pill immediately took effect. It was just that Li Yunrui had covered it up for too long, and the toxin had already entered her heart, but it was impossible to force it out.

Sweat gushed out on Fan Xian’s forehead, and he couldn’t help but think of those movies and novels he had watched in his previous life, those chilling-to-the-bone sequences, and with his left hand, he tightly grasped her shoulder and hissed and growled, “Where’s Wan’er? Where’s Dabao?”

In those stories, the male protagonist is often tormented for life by the agonizing realization, after he has won the final victory, that the enemy refused to tell himself until he died exactly where those loved ones he captured were hiding, and whether they were dead or not.

Those gloomy, dull movie clips and the clutch on the fluorescent screen made Fan Xian get scared, trembling his voice, completely forgetting how he was supposed to react, yelling at her angrily and helplessly.

Li Yunrui gave him a mocking glance, the tip of her eyebrow twitching lightly once more, it seemed that the poison on the dagger had dispersed all the way into her body, and that sharp, painful sensation had finally clearly begun to invade her nerves.

She looked down at the black dagger sticking out of her belly and said softly, “Don’t always utilize your own little clever tricks, those are only used by people who have no talent.”

Fan Xian was chilled to the bone, knowing what the Elder Princess meant by this. The reason why this black dagger looked incredibly familiar to him was because it was originally made by his own hands. It was exactly the same as the dagger that Mr. Fei Jie had passed down to him when he was a young boy, and the medicine smeared on it was also exactly the same.

In today’s world, there were a total of three of these daggers, one hidden between Fan Xian’s own boots, one hidden between Third Prince Li Chengping’s boots, and one …… hidden in Lin Dabao’s boots. Of the people Fan Xian cared about, only the young Li Chengping and the naive Dabao had the least ability to defend themselves, so he carefully passed these two daggers to them, waiting for the final moment to give the enemy the most staggering blow.

In the palace, Li Chengping used this black dagger to save his life, while Dabao’s black dagger was in the hands of the Eldest Princess, in her belly.

“Do you think I would use Dabao to threaten you, when Dabao is at my side and you suddenly issue a password, he pulls out his dagger and stabs me ……,” Li Yunrui coughed, coughing up a trace of blood, sneering and looking at Fan Xian, “Of course , no one will seriously search a fat idiot who is not on guard.”

Li Yunrui’s gaze grew lax as he slowly said, “You’ve been with Lin Dabao for the past few years, was it just for that moment? You told him that I killed Lin Gong, so he hates that person called Li Yunrui, and no one under the sky dares to call out my name to this idiot’s face, except you ……”

She looked at Fan Xian like he was looking at an idiot, “Too much use of petty tactics, too much complexity in thinking, not atmospheric at all.”

Fan Xian was chilled to the bone, not realizing that his last move was so ridiculous in the eyes of the other party, being recognized so easily. He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart, and begged in a harmonious voice, “Tell me where they are.”

Li Yunrui did not look at him, his body grew cold, his shoulders subconsciously shrank, and said, “I am about to die, what is the need to leave Wan’er alone in the world to be bullied by men?”

“She is my wife, I will protect her.”

Li Yunrui’s eyes looked somewhere beside him and said in a trembling voice, “I wanted to kill your concubine, but it didn’t work out. But you will have many more women in the future, so why would I let Wan Er continue to suffer.”

She turned back and quietly looked into Fan Xian’s eyes, saying, “Don’t worry, I won’t use her life to coerce you into becoming a bitter monk ……”

Fan Xian’s heart moved slightly as he stared blankly at the beautiful face near his eyes. At this time, the toxins had all been concentrated on both sides of her temples, and as her veins turned into several greenish colors, it was just like two maidenly horns of green flowers, with a kind of charmed beauty.

Li Yunrui looked at him mockingly, slowly raised her right hand and pulled Fan Xian over, leaning somewhat helplessly on his shoulder, her face pressed against his face, her body leaning against his body, appearing extremely intimate. With this ambiguous gesture, she then came to his ear and whispered, “Why did the Qin family rebel? Go ask Ping Ping, I can only use guesses.”

The beauty of the world, even on the verge of death, still exhaled like orchids, and her slightly hot breath sprayed on Fan Xian’s ear, feeling unusually charming. Fan Xian certainly didn’t have any heart, his eyes looking at the brow-horned cymbidium that was close at hand, listening to the sounds that were gradually coming out of his ears, the gaze in his eyes growing heavier and heavier, more and more shocked, more and more agonized.

Li Yunrui laughed softly in his ear and said, “Even though I’m dead, but to be able to leave His Majesty the Emperor with one of the most powerful enemies, I think that the Kingdom of Qing without me won’t be too boring is all.”

Fan Xian’s mouth went dry, and he couldn’t speak for a long time, only somewhat disheveledly bowing his head, still showing strong hesitation and bewilderment despite his silence.

“This was your mother’s courtyard back then, I wanted to burn it down with a fire, but thought it would be better to leave it to you, it’s a beautiful place. Most of all, I think you need this place to figure something out.”

“You won’t let me down.” Li Yunrui took one last look at his good son-in-law and said with a slight sneer, “Even Dabao, the fool, wants to take advantage of it, in this world, there are only two people who are this shameless and hypocritical, one is His Majesty, and the other is you. So …… I am very optimistic about you.”

Fan Xian’s entire body had frozen at this point, and he hadn’t even listened to this last paragraph in his ears, but immediately afterward, a strange sound came from behind him, causing his heart to shake. Turning around to look, he only saw that the flower tree behind that party’s remnants of the zither had shifted its position, revealing a small pit below.

In the pit were none other than Wan Er and Dabao, the two were tightly bound and their mouths were stuffed with cloth, unable to speak at all. Wan Er’s eyes were slightly red, looking at Fan Xian with a worried gaze, anxious to the extreme, and when she realized that Fan Xian was unharmed, two lines of clear tears flowed down, while Dabao, who had originally had a muddled gaze, was filled with a naive smile when he saw Fan Xian.

Immediately afterward, Wan Er discovered her mother in Fan Xian’s arms, and also discovered her mother’s strange condition, and her eyes were instantly filled with horror.

At this time, Fan Xian had already pushed away the Eldest Princess in his arms and rushed to the tree, lifting Wan Er and Dabao up, and with a flick of his fingers, he cut the ropes on the two of them.

Just after getting out of the big trouble, Wan’er was too late to take out the cloth in her mouth, and rushed past Fan Xian, flung herself to the side of the Eldest Princess, knelt beside her, and cried.

Fan Xian sighed in his heart and prepared to go over, but realized that the corner of his coat was being pulled by someone. Looking back, he saw that Dabao was pulling himself in a silly, joyful manner, seemingly never wanting to let go again. Fan Xian’s guilt was great, and then some faint sadness arose.

Li Yunrui was pushed to the ground by Fan Xian, the toxin has long been into the heart, her forehead corner of the toxin woven by the two smears of traces, appears more and more azure, and her delicate white skin color lining, is more like fragile porcelain on the beautiful blue flowers.

Only this green flower …… is all poison, just like her this person, even if she dies, she wants to let this world because of her few words, and more people die.

Wan Er grasped her mother s hand with one hand, took out the cloth stuffed in her mouth with one hand, and cried with a wow. Although this pair of mother and daughter was too different from the mother and daughter in the world, and their feelings were not how close, however, after all, the bloodline was connected to the heart, Li Yunrui did not choose to use Wan’er’s life to threaten Fan Xian at the last moment, while Wan’er looked at her dying mother, she was even more unable to help but feel sorrow from her heart, and couldn’t stop her mournful cuts and pains.

Li Yunrui’s cold right hand, holding her daughter’s hand tightly, smiled with difficulty, raised her hand for the last time, pursed the corner of her hair, as if she wanted to still maintain the most beautiful image when she left this world.

Her fingertips skimmed over the poignant crocus, lining the mocking smile at the corners of her lips.

It was unknown who she was laughing at. Perhaps it was laughing at the fact that earlier Fan Xian had still held himself in his arms, and once he saw Wan’er, he pushed himself down on top of the grass in an unusually cold-blooded manner, or perhaps it was thinking of the night of the thunderstorm in the palace, that cowardly but affectionate nephew, or perhaps it was thinking of a story from her childhood many years ago.

Then she smiled contemptuously and uttered her last three words on this earth.

“Men ah ……”

Looking at the gradually icy cold body of the eldest princess on the grass, Fan Xian’s heart gradually turned cold as well. He knew that the most powerful and sinister enemy of his life until now had finally ended her life that was difficult to judge. To be precise, from the matter of Camp Weaving Dadong Mountain, to the final plotting rebellion in Kyoto, to this dagger in the Taiping Farewell House, Li Yunrui had only died by her own hands, and her heart had long since died.

This was a very marvelous woman, a very powerful woman. If Fan Xian didn’t have that black box, he would have only died in Yan Xiaoyi’s hands, and the entire situation in Kyoto would have long since fallen under the control of the Eldest Princess.

However, she was ultimately a woman, not the most powerful person in the world. Compared to the unfathomable Emperor who had somehow survived the Great Eastern Mountains, the Princess had one of the most fatal shortcomings, or rather, she had more of a destiny than His Majesty – the word “love”.

Perhaps this love is a little ridiculous, a little twisted, but it is still love. I ask what love is in this world, and it makes people love each other in life and in death. Yuan Hao Wen in writing these two lines, must not have thought, there are too many people in the world with practice in the meaning of these two lines.

Among them, there are even children who are foolish. The Princess is undoubtedly also a fool, just she really lost? At this time, Fan Xian, who was cold, did not think so. She wanted to do things in her life, has basically done, and finally she whispered in Fan Xian’s ear words, although nothing pointing, but already in Fan Xian’s heart planted a flower with poison.

Just like the poisoned crocus that surfaced at the corner of her brow at the last moment of her life.

Wan Er threw herself on the body of the Eldest Princess and cried more than a few tears, Lin Dabao was behind Fan Xian, pulling at the corner of his coat, looking at the scene with some nervous confusion, thinking to himself that the Princess’s mother had gone to bed, so why was her sister crying?

The Rapunzel’s face was still as beautiful as ever, with long eyelashes and green sideburns, just like a sleeping beauty waiting for someone to wake her up with a kiss.

Fan Xian looked at this scene, his mind in a daze, and subconsciously spat out a somewhat unfamiliar word from his lips, “Je suis comme ye suis……”

It was a poem by a Frenchman from the fourteenth century, and he remembered some remnants of the words from watching a movie in his previous life. In the here and now, those words but reappeared in his mind with exceptional clarity.

“This is what I am.

This is what I am.

I was born this way.

When I want to laugh, I laugh and laugh.

I love the people who love me, and that shouldn’t be my downfall.

I love the people I love every time, every time I love them.

That’s just the way I am.

That’s just the way I am.

I was born to please. And that can’t be changed.

I please people who please me, can you nay these?

I fall in love with someone, and someone falls in love with me.

It’s like children falling in love.”

Kyoto was in the midst of its greatest chaos. Although the Ye family and the forbidden army had already beaten the Qin family into a crippled army, expelled them from Kyoto, and taken control of the nine city gates, yet the situation in Kyoto was a bit more chaotic than before. Earlier when the two armies were facing each other, the people of Kyoto were all cowering under the beds of their own homes, not daring to make the slightest sound, but now that the situation was beginning to be divided, the frightened citizens finally summoned up the courage and surged towards the city gates in fear.

The people of Kyoto often have their own poor relatives in the countryside outside the city, in such a dangerous time, they naturally want to find ways to escape to shelter, otherwise who knows those soldiers who are fighting, will not be after the division of the victory and defeat, to Kyoto to ransack.

Their worries were not unreasonable. At least in the current Kyoto, some roaming soldiers and some military discipline is not strict subordinates, in the pursuit of each other at the same time, also began to start by the side of the robbery and so on. The streets and alleys were in chaos, with the occasional sound of a woman screaming and the occasional fire shooting up into the sky.

Qing army military discipline has always been strict, today this kind of chaos, on the one hand, is the inevitable bad consequences of war, on the other hand is also because this battle is an internal conspiracy and rebellion, whether it is the Ye family Qin family, or the guard division of the generals and soldiers, the heart more or less have some indescribable sense of disillusionment, the darkest part of the heart of mankind, have begun to rise up.

Gong Dian did not lead troops out of the city to pursue, the first time to start purging the order of the whole Kyoto, only the Kyoto is too big, a moment and a half can not control all. The people of Kyoto, however, could not wait for General Gong’s purge; they knew the danger posed by the remnants of the army after a great battle, and tried their best to rush toward the city gate where Gong Deng was personally seated, making the scene chaotic.

The silent Fan Xian, on the other hand, with the help of a small group of Dingzhou troops and the secret agents of the Supervisory Office who had come out to meet them, returned to Kyoto through another city gate, returning to his home that he had been away from for a long time.

He didn’t rush back to the palace, didn’t rush to see Ye Chong, but went straight back to the Fan residence. There was no time at all to comfort Wan Er, and after only briefly asking about his father and Prince Jing’s situation, he pulled Fuji Zijing aside and whispered a few discreet instructions about something.

Ever since the Fan Mansion had been besieged, Tou Zi Jing had picked up a wooden stick and organized the guards of the family’s domestic servants to meet one edict and harassment after another. It was fortunate that Fan Jian himself was not in the house, and the Fan Mansion did not experience a major attack, while those remnants of the stragglers were no match for the Fan Mansion’s underlings.

Fan Jian had always been extremely good at training his soldiers.

As Fuji Zijing listened to his young master’s order, his face grew cautious, and with a heavy nod, he didn’t inquire about the reason, and didn’t dare to bring too many conspicuous Fan Mansion subordinates, as he sped off in the direction of the twenty-eight-mile slope.